Vivien Leigh: a life in pictures

Churchill was a huge fan of Leigh's 1941 film 'Lady Hamilton' (see main picture), about Emma Hamilton, the mistress of Nelson, and it was even said that he had been behind the making of the film, seeing it as a means of convincing America to back Britain in the war. It regularly moved him to tears and he was no less a fan of its leading lady, exclaiming, 'By Jove, she's a clinker.'